The exhibit, which was cosponsored by the capital city’s Environment Secretariat, focuses on the plight of the jaguar in two priority sections of Mexico, the central Pacific and the Maya jungle
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexican government is currently considering lifting endangered-species protection for the totoaba fish, which will almost certainly negatively impact the country’s indigenous vaquita porpoise, one of the world’s most endangered mammals. With only about 10 of the critically endangered marine porpoises, which are endemic to Mexico’s Sea of Córtez in the Upper Gulf of
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By LARRY ANTHONY PANNELL We woke to a dark, overcast day and drizzling rain in Kruger National Park. It was Day Two of five in Kruger, after five days of safari in the Ingwelala Private Game Reserve in South Africa. Our agenda for the day was to locate and photograph lions, one of the Big Five that had eluded us
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In the world of plants, nothing arouses passions like an orchid. Throughout history, collectors have bartered for them, displayed them in royal palaces, placed them under armed military guards, stolen them, waged wars over them and risked their lives in dark, rainforest jungles to obtain the showiest or most recently discovered bloom in what is now a $100-billion a year
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Their very name means “man of the forest,” and anyone who has ever seen an orangutan up close and personal will understand why these highly intelligent primates, with their human-like features and their acute sensitivity, are considered to be one of our closest living relatives. And yet, despite their gentle, unaggressive nature and their compassionate personalities, the
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